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NanKate Sat 07-Nov-15 20:41:38

You may think this is odd but when I think of the months of the year I see them as an ellipse shape, like an egg on it's side.

For example January is top left, June is bottom middle, November is far right moving back up the sideways oval. Christmas/December is at the top.

I see the days of the week as a straight line with Sunday starting it. When Friday comes I am almost at the end of the line.

Before you send the men in white coats, does anyone else see things in such a visual way? I do know some people see numbers as colours, but not me on the occasion.

Grandma2213 Sun 08-Nov-15 01:32:46

I am one of those who don't think of sequences in colours or shapes. I just think 'thoughts'. I remember once on a 'language' course being told that you cannot think without language. However I have many thoughts which make me feel and react but if I were to try and describe them using language I would fail miserably.confused+

loopylou Sun 08-Nov-15 06:33:24

I clearly have no imagination.........
Shame really because this sounds like fun sad

soontobe Sun 08-Nov-15 08:38:09

Time is linear for me. There is no beginning or end.

People being blips that extinguish along the line.

thatbags Sun 08-Nov-15 08:39:24

Just being a bit of a blip... wink

Anya Sun 08-Nov-15 08:53:33

I see certain words and letters as colours. Monday is red and so is M, Tuesday is blue, the letter 'R' is green.

Numbers are 3-D arranged in a kind of scaffolding with single units on the lowest level, 10's on the next, etc..

Anya Sun 08-Nov-15 08:54:14

Eggs have outsides.

Bellanonna Sun 08-Nov-15 09:49:57

Never thought of myself as a blip soon! A kind of error ?

soontobe Sun 08-Nov-15 09:55:12

No, not an error!
More of a here today, gone tomorrow, when looked at from a century's perspective.

No one alive today, will be alive in the year 2145. No one. No matter how great or small. No matter what they do or dont do.

We will be looked at in the same way we look at people born in say 1745.

Indinana Sun 08-Nov-15 10:20:50

Yes, it is a very humbling thought, isn't it soon. Our insignificance in the great picture.

Grandma2213 Mon 09-Nov-15 01:18:17

soon - What a liberating thought! We should enjoy our lives and do what we want (if it's legal!). No one in 2145 will ever know or care!

NfkDumpling Mon 09-Nov-15 07:29:04

It does bring home the smallness of our existence.

In 2145 the present wars and upheaval in the Middle East will be just as perplexing as the killing and hatred which happened in England between Catholcs and Protestants in Tudor times. (and other pointless wars)

It'll just be another topic for students to discuss.

(My year is egg shaped too - on it's side, pointy end to the right which is where Christmas is, winter at the bottom, summer at the top and the weeks marked out along it.)

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 09:35:24

Yes. Eggs do have outsides. And insides. And there's a nice warm one in my tummy right now. smile

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 09:37:44

Meantime, we live in the here and now. And things need sorting. We are writing history.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 09-Nov-15 09:38:29

Well, someone is. Not sure it's me.